Loretta Lynch Nominated U.S. Attorney General

The next U.S. attorney general has been nominated . The NYC prosecutor, Loretta Lynch, the two-time U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York described as "tough, fair and an independent" lawyer.



Who is Loretta Lynch .





1/28/15: Day 1, Part 1

10.16.14: Vanita Gupta Nominated

President Barack Obama nominated Vanita Gupta to head the Department of Justice civil rights division. She has been described as a “trailblazer” who has been at the forefront of the movement to end mass incarceration in the US, and has had almost unparalleled success in working across the aisle despite the partisan gridlock in Washington.

Vanita Gupta, 39, the deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, was appointed on Wednesday as temporary head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, a role to which she is expected to be nominated by the end of the year.

In her new job at the Justice Department, Gupta would be flung into the hornet’s nest of voting rights at a time when controversial voter-ID laws, that have erected hurdles to democratic participation mainly in southern states, have been spawned in several states. She will also have the thorny investigation into police conduct in Ferguson related to the death of the black teenager Michael Brown and the public protests that followed.

Romero said that her role would be all the more important now that the attorney general, Eric Holder, is stepping down. “It’s clear that Holder’s legacy is in criminal justice, so his selection of Vanita signals he wants her to carry on that legacy to fruition in the last two years of the Obama administration.”

Liberia

 

Liberia is a country in West Africa bordered by Sierra Leone to its west, Guinea to its north and Ivory Coast to its east.

The Capital and largest city is Monrovia.

The president is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She was in office from January 16, 2006 to January 22, 2018. The current president is George Weah. He assumed office on January 22, 2018.

Official language is English.

  

Serbia and Kosovo

Serbia is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. Serbia is landlocked and borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro to the west; it also claims to border Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. The capital of Serbia, Belgrade, is among Europe's oldest cities and one of the largest in Southeast Europe.

The Capital and largest city is Belgrade.

The president is Tomislav Nikolići.

Official language is Serbian.





















Kosovo is a partially recognised state in Southeastern Europe, which declared independence from Serbia in February 2008 as the Republic of Kosovo. While Serbia recognises the Republic's governance of the territory, it still continues to claim it as its own Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija.

The Capital and largest city is Pristina.

The president is Atifete Jahjaga.

Official languages are Albanian and Serbia.

Albania

Albania officially known as the Republic of Albania. It is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south and southeast.

The Capital and largest city is Tirana.

The president was Bujar Nishani. He served from July 24, 2012 to July 24, 2017. He was succeeded by Ilir Meta, he assumed office on 7.24.17.


Official language is Albanian.



Albania is a secular state without an official religion, with the freedom of religion being a constitutional right. The 2011 census, for the first time since 1930, included an optional open-ended question on religion; the census recorded a majority of Muslims (58.79%), which include Sunni (56.70%) and Bektashi Muslims (2.09%). Christians, making up 16.92% of the population, include Catholics (10.03%), Orthodox (6.75%) and evangelical Protestants (0.14%). Atheists accounted for 2.5% of the population and 5.49% were non-affiliated believers, while 13.79% preferred not to answer.

United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates , sometimes simply called the Emirates or the UAE is a country located in the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south, as well as sharing sea borders with Qatar, Iran and Pakistan.

The capital city Abu Dhabi, which is one of the two centers of commercial and cultural activities, together with Dubai.

The president is Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan .

Islam is the official religion of the UAE, and Arabic is the official language.

Vietnam

Vietnam is officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It's the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.3 million inhabitants as of 2012, it is the world's 13th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country.

The capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976.

The president is Trương Tấn Sang .

The official language is Vietnamese.

Vietnam's profile: Vietnam, a one-party Communist state, has one of south-east Asia's fastest-growing economies and has set its sights on becoming a developed nation by 2020.



Vietnam's independence was gradually eroded by France – aided by large Catholic militias – in a series of military conquests between 1859 and 1885. In 1862, the southern third of the country became the French colony of Cochinchina. By 1887, the entire country formally became part of French Indochina. The French administration imposed significant political and cultural changes on Vietnamese society. A Western-style system of modern education was developed, and Roman Catholicism was propagated widely. Most French settlers in Indochina were concentrated in Cochinchina, basing themselves around Saigon.

War dominated 30 years of Vietnam's history last century. The struggle that began with communists fighting French colonial power in the 1940s did not end until they seized Saigon and control of the whole country. In 1975, communist forces seized control of Saigon, ending the Vietnam War , and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.

The period that Americans refer to as the "Vietnam War" – and the Vietnamese call the "American War" – was the US military intervention from 1965 to 1973.





Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. opposed the U.S.'s role in the war, insisting that the U.S. was in Vietnam "to occupy it as an American colony" and calling the U.S. government "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

He argued that the country needed larger and broader moral changes. Dr. King also didn't like the fact that the war was shifting resources to the conflict and taking them away from the War on Poverty. He said, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

Also, he lashed out against what he called the "cruel irony" of American blacks fighting and dying for a country which treated them as second class citizens: “We were taking the young black men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties which they had not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlem. ... We have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them in the same schools.”

On January 13, 1968, the day after President Johnson's State of the Union Address, King called for a large march on Washington against "one of history's most cruel and senseless wars." “We need to make clear in this political year, to congressmen on both sides of the aisle and to the president of the United States, that we will no longer tolerate, we will no longer vote for men who continue to see the killings of Vietnamese and Americans as the best way of advancing the goals of freedom and self-determination in Southeast Asia.” Dr. King's " Beyond Vietnam" speech.








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Somalia

Somalia is officially known as the Federal Republic of Somalia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

The Capital and largest city is Mogadishu.

The president is Hassan Sheikh Mohamud . After his term ended on 2.16.17, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed succeeded him as president.


The official languages are Somali and Arabic.





What is Al-Shabaab and what are its aims? They are an al Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia. They hope to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state but has launched attacks in other countries as well.